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A memorial service will be held Monday at the Tinley Park Convention Center to mark the 1-year anniversary of the slayings of five women at the Lane Bryant clothing store in the south suburb. A sixth woman survived the shooting.

Friends and family of a woman killed in last year's deadly shooting at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park held a scholarship fundraiser in her honor today. Carrie Hudek-Chiuso was one of five women slain in February 2008 at the clothing store. The fundraiser is called "Carrie-Fest" and was held in Frankfort. The money will benefit disadvantaged children. Hudek-Chiuso, a 33-year-old Frankfort woman, was a high school counselor at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. The Tinley Park...

Crime-scene experts from the Chicago office of the FBI today visited the Lane Bryant clothing store in Tinley Park where five women were killed Feb. 2. Police did not say what the officers were looking for. The FBI has been working with Tinley Park police and officers from the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force to track down leads in the high-profile case. The suspect is described as a 25- to 35-year-old African-American man who is 5 feet 9 inches to 6 feet tall with a...

Friends and family of a woman killed in last year's deadly shooting at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park held a scholarship fundraiser in her honor today. Carrie Hudek-Chiuso was one of five women slain in February 2008 at the clothing store. The fundraiser is called "Carrie-Fest" and was held in Frankfort. The money will benefit disadvantaged children. Hudek-Chiuso, a 33-year-old Frankfort woman, was a high school counselor at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. The Tinley Park...

The Tinley Park Lane Bryant store where five women were shot dead execution-style one year ago no longer is a crime scene, the SouthtownStar reports . The South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force, which is investigating the Feb. 2, 2008, murders, likely will give the clothing store back to its parent company, Charming Shoppes Inc., in the next week or so, Tinley Park Police Cmdr. Pat McCain said today. "Everything that's evidentiary we've gotten out of there," McCain said, adding that there are...

For the first time since his wife was shot to death last year inside a Lane Bryant clothing store, Brian Bishop visited the murder scene on Sunday. He said he wanted to further his healing so he drove alone to the store in a strip mall just off Interstate Highway 80 in south suburban Tinley Park. "Going back to the store for a little while was haunting," said Bishop, whose wife, Jennifer Bishop, was among five women slain there. "There's something strangely comforting and oddly...

The Tinley Park Lane Bryant store where five women were shot dead execution-style one year ago no longer is a crime scene, the SouthtownStar reports . The South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force, which is investigating the Feb. 2, 2008, murders, likely will give the clothing store back to its parent company, Charming Shoppes Inc., in the next week or so, Tinley Park Police Cmdr. Pat McCain said today. "Everything that's evidentiary we've gotten out of there," McCain said, adding that there are...

For the first time since his wife was shot to death last year inside a Lane Bryant clothing store, Brian Bishop visited the murder scene on Sunday. He said he wanted to further his healing so he drove alone to the store in a strip mall just off Interstate Highway 80 in south suburban Tinley Park. "Going back to the store for a little while was haunting," said Bishop, whose wife, Jennifer Bishop, was among five women slain there. "There's something strangely comforting and oddly...

Authorities say the piles of clothing that were inside the former Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park where five women were murdered in 2008 will be donated to a women's prison and two nonprofits in Chicago's southern suburbs. Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki said Saturday that Lane Bryant's parent company, Charming Shoppes Inc., is donating clothes that were in the front of the store, away from the crime scene. The donation is in addition to 150 coats that are being distributed...

A retired police commander who was the media liaison for the 2008 Lane Bryant shooting will serve as Tinley Park’s interim police chief while the village conducts a nationwide search for a permanent candidate. The village board named Phil Valois for the temporary post. He will be appointed at the next village board meeting Tuesday. Read more at TribLocal.

Police today were investigating the death of a 53-year-old Tinley Park man found stabbed to death inside his apartment Monday night. South suburban officials said the man's car is missing, as are other items from his home. When William "Randy" Schmidt, of the 15900 block of Westway Walk, didn't show up for work, his employer became concerned and asked police to make a well-being check. His death from multiple stab wounds was ruled a homicide today by the Cook County medical examiner's...

A memorial service will be held Monday at the Tinley Park Convention Center to mark the 1-year anniversary of the slayings of five women at the Lane Bryant clothing store in the south suburb. A sixth woman survived the shooting.

Crime-scene experts from the Chicago office of the FBI today visited the Lane Bryant clothing store in Tinley Park where five women were killed Feb. 2. Police did not say what the officers were looking for. The FBI has been working with Tinley Park police and officers from the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force to track down leads in the high-profile case. The suspect is described as a 25- to 35-year-old African-American man who is 5 feet 9 inches to 6 feet tall with a...

A man suspected of being the "honeybee killer" robbed and fired a gun at a prostitute in Chicago hours before he was killed while trying to rob an Orland Park tanning salon over the weekend, police say. Gary Amaya, 48, of downstate Rankin, was in his truck with a prostitute around 1:30 a.m. Saturday on the West Side when he tried to put her in handcuffs, according to Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy. As Amaya tried to "detain" her, she managed to flee but...

Some of the Midwest's highest-profile unsolved crimes -- including the disappearance of Stacy Peterson and the slayings of five women in a clothing store -- may be investigated by suburban Chicago law enforcement agencies that have banded together. Authorities in Will and Grundy counties, along with the Illinois State Police and the FBI, are forming a Major Crimes Task Force, officials said at a news conference Tuesday. The task force, made up of 57 officers and crime scene technicians...